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In RotoNation’s Question of the Day, we pose a question (sometimes serious, sometimes, not so serious, always interesting) to members of the fantasy sports industry. Today, I am happy to have Jeff Ma, one of the founders of Citizen Sports Inc., to answer the question of the day.

The true story of the very brightest young minds in the country - and how they took Vegas for millions. Ben Campbell is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who -- needing to pay school tuition -- finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school's most gifted students [...] Read the full post at shaolintiger.com.

The Associated Press has a great article on Jeff Ma, the inspiration for the movie “21″, and how he believes that he can conquer fantasy sports. From the article: By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about.

Mark Shanahan of the Boston Globe tracks down Jane Willis, the female member of the "MIT blackjack team", a group of collegiate math whizzes (not all of them from MIT--Willis herself was a student at Harvard Law School at the time) who stormed the casinos to use their card-counting skills to rake in the big bucks.

Movie: 21 In Theaters: March 28, 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity. Gecko Rating: Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is an MIT math whiz, just about ready to enter Harvard Medical School. Getting in is no problem. Paying for it’s another story.

Movie: 21 In Theaters: March 28, 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity. Gecko Rating: Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is an MIT math whiz, just about ready to enter Harvard Medical School. Getting in is no problem. Paying for it’s another story.

21 Movie Soundtrack: 1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones 2. Time To Pretend - MGMT 3. Big Ideas - LCD Soundsystem 4. Giant - D. Sardy/Liela Moss 5. Always - Amon Tobin 6. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn And John 7. Mad Pursuit - Junkie XL/Electrocute 8. Sister Self Doubt - Get Shakes 9.

  Gee, it doesn’t look like they’re acting at all! Based on a true story, 21 features swindles in modern times, using pretty young things and the lascivious backdrop of Las Vegas to tell its story of card-counters and the windfalls they so easily acquire.

I won't be going to see "21" and it's not because a review I just read compares the film to a "two-hour commercial for the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Bureau." And it's not because that same review called lead actor Jim Sturgess "not particularly interesting" and Kate Bosworth an "onscreen

A blur of neon lights, hip clubs, and thousands of dollars in cash and chips – that is the simplest summary of Robert Luketic’s 21. The film is based on the true story of a group of math elite M.I.T. students that took Las Vegas casinos for millions in the mid-1990s by counting cards and ‘crushing’ blackjack tables.